Food & Drink

Today is April 20, also known as 4/20. I think we all know what that means: It’s finally Lima Bean Respect Day, yo! Have a fun and safe Lima Bean Respect Day, everyone. And while you’re funning, play some Four Twenty Bingo!…

Chefs gathered along the sidelines of the Paul Quinn farm last night to serve food for the Community Cooks event. Over 400 guests attended, which was twice as many compared to last year’s inaugural feast, and college officials said the dinner raised over $250,000 for the farm. Paul Quinn College…

OK. It’s your first day at work at some random French cafe. You’ve never waited tables before, but you aced the interview and somehow convinced the manager that you were ready for the big time. Your first table is seated. It’s a four-top. Old ladies lunching. And after they place…

Dallas native John Kleifgen took his first job at a restaurant as a teenager because a gig carrying mulch at Calloway’s didn’t provide much entertainment. So, when a friend told him about a kitchen job for the Lakewood Country Club, he weighed his options and wisely chose a country club…

News broke Tuesday that local restaurateur Phil Romano is opening two new eatZi’s in the area. A Grapevine (at 1319 Hwy 114) store will open on May 17, and a lease has been signed for a new development in Plano. Today eatZi’s chef executive, Adam Romo, clarified a few more…

While interviewing Jeffery Hobbs about the fried chicken at Sissy’s, the subject of this week’s review, I asked a number of questions about his process. I’ve only fried chicken at home a few times (the smell!) so I’m not well versed it its mechanics. I did, however, page though all…

U.S. Food Trucks, a company that builds, leases, sells and consults on mobile meal makers, recently announced what it’s calling the first-annual state-wide Food TruckFest. The event combines approximately 30 food trucks from as far as San Antonio with a 5K race. (As if 3.2 miles could put a dent…

Chad Montgomery got a lesson in event promotion over the weekend. The operations manager by day, beer guzzler by night had never organized a large public event before, and he learned a few lessons with his inaugural Big Texas Beer Fest. One lesson is to take food truck commitments with…

Ben & Jerry’s annual Free Cone Day was scheduled for April 3, but tornadoes forced some local shops to play a make-up game, and that making up goes down today. Three local shops are partaking in the festivities: Plano, McKinney and the Shops of Highland Village. The Plano store has…

Crawfish season, which if you’re not from the South is not when crustaceans fall from the sky, is one of the few documented times when it’s totally OK to suck the hot brains from a tiny crustracean head. Mark Andresen, the illustrator who’s no stranger to Not-Eating-This-Shit Properly, provides this…

Changes are coming at Oak Cliff’s beloved Mesa. The restaurant opened just before my arrival and was the subject of my very first review. I loved the place, and the very same week Leslie Brenner did too. It went on to become one of the most notable openings of the…

The Deep Ellum Outdoor Market shut down Main Street over the weekend for a food truck rally. For some, especially the 10 or so trucks there, the night was a success. Cajun Tailgators ran out of food at 9:30 p.m. The Munch Box had a “sea of people” outside their…

“Pie North Bishop is ours!” I just got off the phone with Megan Wilkes, proprietor of Emporium Pies, who told me she and her partner Mary Gauntt signed the lease for their pie shop yesterday. Wilkes’ pie pun — there are always pie puns — is a riff on the…